FORTUNE -- In 1936, Adolf Hitler watched with dismay as African-American track star Jesse Owens won four gold medals, dominated the Summer Olympics in Berlin, and undermined the Fuhrer's edict that the Aryan race was the supreme race.

A ludicrous study of Hitler recasts the Führer as a precursor of Simon Cowell Michael Munn has spent his life – at least as he implausibly tells it – schmoozing with the beautiful and the damned. He bonded with Steve McQueen while riding pillion on his motorbike in Cornwall when he was 17. That same year, the multitasking lad made vigorous love to Ava Gardner, by then an alcoholic hasbeen of 45 ...

There is a popular belief that Adolph Hitler was vegetarian, which somehow leads some to the logic that vegetarianism is related to fascism. Hitler did claim to be vegetarian, and he also felt that eating meat caused cancer (and flatulence, further steaming up Hitler's status as a stinker).

Adolf Hitler may have believed he could divinely dictate the weather, startling new evidence has suggested.

In what seemed to be a repeat of the great "Hitler Reacts" YouTube takedown of 2010, an original version of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" video used to Rickroll Web denizens was removed from YouTube on the grounds of copyright infringement. Thank God it appears to have been only temporary.

Adolf Hitler developed a "messiah complex" as Germany began losing World War II, according to a newly unveiled British intelligence report.

A stray cable comment triggers an Internet firestorm. Michelle Goldberg on the Ann Romney tempest—and her very qualified apology.

HUDSON – Pranksters used easily accessible Facebook and Wikipedia pages to try linking Alvirne High School with Adolph Hitler on Monday. For most of Monday morning, Hitler was the profile picture for a Facebook page that pretends to represent Alvirne, although the school has no official Facebook site. “We have gotten emails from alumni who are concerned, and phone calls,” Principal Bryan Lane ...

Not that Hitler is pleased with much these days—given the fact that he's been dead for almost 70 years—but he's positively, profanely irate at the soldier who falls prey to Loki's pointy stick in Joss Whedon's Avengers . ( Spoilers ahead! )

Adolf Hitler had a "messiah complex" and became increasingly obsessed with the perceived Jewish "enemy within" as World War II turned against Germany, according to a secret 1942 assessment.